On Sunday I set sail on a boat called Habibi, to do a backpacker tour of the Whitsunday Islands. I think there were about 25 passengers on board, and three crew - a cook, a deckhand and a skipper. We spent most of Sunday sailing out to the islands, and spent the night rocking and rolling on the choppy ocean - I didn't sleep very well as I had to keep waking up and hang on to things so I didn't fall out of bed! The bunks were small and my bunk was so close to the ...

I'm in Airlie Beach now. I got the Greyhound down from Cairns yesterday with Gemma, a girl I met in Darwin and then again in Cairns. It took 11 hours and was horrible because it was full, unlike any of the buses we'd been on up the west coast. The first driver we had was grumpy, and the second one had never driven a Greyhound before and couldn't change gear! I reckon I could drive a Greyhound better than him! He kept going past the bus stops and having to turn ar...